#Podcast: The rise of microvideo in online news

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The rising tide of microvideo apps for smartphones is an increasing feature in online and mobile news reporting. This podcast looks at what is driving this change, some of the different platforms being used and what this could potentially mean for how news is received and reported in online and mobile forms in the future.

We speak to:

• Michael Downing, founder and CEO, Tout
• Jim Brady, editor-in-chief, Digital First Media
• Neha Manaktala, chief operations officer, Vizibee
• Marc Settle, trainer in mobile journalism, BBC College of Journalism
• Michael Anastasi, vice president and executive editor, Los Angeles Newspaper Group

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We will have more on Journalism.co.uk next week from the podcast interviewees on this subject.

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#Tip: Watch video of social video panel from Social Media Summit

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The BBC College of Journalism has posted video on YouTube of a panel on creating social video, which was held at the Social Media Summit in New York last month.

The panel featured Roy Sekoff, president and co-creator of HuffPost Live, Katherine Zaleski, managing editor of NowThis News and Olivia Ma, head of news and media partnerships at Google+. Watch the video below to hear more about some of the different approaches being taken in making video a more social experience for news consumers, across platforms.

And here’s more on HuffPost Live as well as NowThisNews, on their approaches to social video,

Hat tip: Paul Bradshaw, who also posted the video on his Tumblr

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#Podcast – Snow Fall and beyond: A look at long-form online storytelling

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Following last month’s the Pulitzer prize for New York Times sports reporter John Branch, the author of Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek, and this week’s Webby Awards which also recognised examples of beautiful long-form storytelling online, this week’s podcast looks at some of the exciting ways newspapers and others are telling in-depth stories on digital platforms.

The podcast addresses some of the issues which arise when bringing together long-form narrative with powerful visuals and interactivity, including the sorts of stories which best suit this approach, the benefits for audiences, journalists and news outlets, and the need for experimentation, even if on a smaller scale.

We speak to:

• John Branch, sports reporter, the New York Times, who won the Pulitzer prize for feature writing last month for Snow Fall
• Benji Lanyado, journalist and interactive designer, now also working on a new start-up
• Dan Zak, reporter, Washington Post, who authored The Prophets of Oak Ridge
• Sarah Sampsel, director of digital, mobile and new product design, Washington Post

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#Tip: Use YouTube Time to quickly link to a specific point in a video

If you have ever wanted to link to a particular point in a YouTube video, you might be aware that you can add the time to the YouTube URL.

For example, add ‘#t=10m03s’ to the URL if you want the video to start at 10 minutes and 3 seconds.

If you find you cannot remember the code, there is a quicker way. You can simply enter the link in YouTube Time and the online tool will do the rest.

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#Podcast: Managing user-generated content in breaking news

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User-generated content is becoming increasingly important in reporting on breaking news situations, so this week’s podcast looks at how different organisations and platforms manage the influx of user submitted content.

• Markham Nolan, managing editor, Storyful
• Dan Petty, social media editor, Denver Post
• Paul Owen, journalist and regular live blogger, Guardian
• Ken Goldberg, project leader of the Rashomon Project, UC Berkeley

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#Tip: Try storytelling tool Cowbird – which now has embed option

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Cowbird has released a new feature that allows you to embed a single story into a blog post or news story.

Cowbird is a storytelling tool which allows users to create multimedia stories with audio, images, text and other features.

An email was sent to Cowbird users earlier this week making them aware of the “long-awaited and much-asked-for single story embed”.

You can now embed any Cowbird story anywhere on the web, using our handsome story player (complete with audio, connections, sharing, handwriting, and more).

Just click the ‘Retell’ button on any Cowbird story, select the ‘Embed’ tab, and grab the code.

Recent examples of Cowbird stories can be found here.

Cowbird first came to our attention at Journalism.co.uk when the National Geographic used it to allow people living in the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to tell their own stories, in their own words and pictures.

Mediashift wrote this article: How National Geographic used Cowbird storytelling tool to tell a reservation’s whole story.

Cowbird is also included in our list of 14 visual storytelling tools.

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#Podcast: How magazine publishers are innovating in online video

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Some magazine publishers started producing video more than 10 years ago, creating DVDs to attach to the front of magazines. Now many are producing hundreds of online videos a year.

Audiences are watching the films on the publishers’ own sites, on YouTube, and within apps; viewing on desktop computers, tablets, mobile phones and connected TVs.

In this podcast we hear from:

• Pete Wootton, managing director of Dennis Interactive, the digital division of Dennis Publishing
• Grant Bremner, head of Future TV at Future (which has titles including T3, TechRadar and Future Music)  
• Kevin Perry, assistant editor of NME.com (owned by IPC Media), who also manages the music title’s video content 

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#Tip: Watch this video on how to make a film

If you shoot and edit online videos or you are thinking of getting started, here is a two-minute guide called ‘how to make a film’.

Online video producer Adam Westbrook has shot the guide and demonstrates why shooting and editing a film is “a piece of cake”.

How to make a film from Adam Westbrook on Vimeo.

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#Tip of the day for journalists: Read this advice on interviewing for video

Poynter has published a guide headlined ‘What journalists need to know about interviewing for video‘.

It contains advice on audio, lighting, framing a shot and the interview itself.

It is worth reading and bookmarking this link.

If you have a tip you would like to submit to us at Journalism.co.uk email us using this link.

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The Sun launches ‘multimedia studio’ with video webchat

The Sun has launched a new “multimedia studio”, which it used this week to host a video webchat with actor and politician Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The studio will not be in full-time use until February, but Schwarzenegger helped open the studio on Tuesday (22 January).

The 30 minute webchat used the Showcaster platform to provide live video from their new studio, alongside a chatbox in which users could post questions. The questions were moderated and put to Schwarzenegger by showbiz editor Gordon Smart.

A video of the interview was then posted on the Sun’s online ‘showbiz’ section, accompanied by a write-up of the interview focusing on the show-business related aspects of his answers.

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